The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS. HENRY WOOD.
Author of Emi Lynne, Etc.
CHAPTER XVI.
In an obscure room of a low and
dilapidated lodging house, iu a luw and
dilapidated neighborhood, there sat a
man one evening iu the coming twi
light; a towering, gaunt skeleton,
whose remarkably long arms and legs
looked little more than skin and bone.
The arms were fully exposed to view,
since their owner, though he possessed
and wore a waistcoat, dispensed with
the use of a shirt. An article, once a
coat, lay on the floor, to be donned
at will—if it could be got into for
the holes. The man sat on the floor
in a corner, hi3 head finding a resting
place against the wall, and he had
dropped into a light sleep, but if ever
famine wTas depicted in a face, it was
in his. Unwashed, unshaven, with
matted hair and feverish lips; the
cheeks were hollow, the nostrils
white and pinched, and the skin
around the mouth had a blue tinge.
Some one tried and shook the door; it
aroused him, and he started up, but
only to cower iu a -bending attitude
and listen.
“I hear you," cried a voice. "How
are you tonight, Joe? Open the door. ’
The voice was not one he knew; not
one that might be responded to.
"Do you call this politeness, Joe
Nlcholls? If you don't open the door, I
shall take the liberty of opening it for
myself, which will put you to the
trouble of mending the fastenings
afterwards.”
"Who are you?" cried Nlcholls, read
ing determination in the voice. "I'm
gone to bed, and can't admit folks
tonight.”
“Gone to bed at 8 o clock"
“Yes; I’m ill.”
“I will give you one minute, and
then I come In. You will open it if
you want to save trouble.”
Nicbolla yielded to his fate and
opened the door.
The gentleman—he looked like one
—cast his keen eyes around the room.
There was not a vestige of furniture
in it; nothing but the bare, dirty
walls, from which the mortar crum
bled, and the bare, dirty boards.
“What did you mean by saying you
were gone to bed, eh?”
“So 1 was. I was asleep there,”
pointing to the corner, “and there's
my bed. What do you want?" added
Nicholls, peering at the stranger’s
face in the gloom of the evening, but
seeing it imperfectly, for his hat was
drawn low over it.
“A little talk with you. The last
sweepstake you got into—”
The man lifted his face and burst
forth with such eagerness that the
stranger could only arrest his own
words and listen.
“It was a swindle from beginning to
end. I had scraped together the ten
shillings to put in it, and I drew the
right horse and was shuffled out of
the gains and I have never had my
dues, not a farthing of ’em. Since then
I have been ill, and I can't get about
to better myself. Are you come, sir,
to make it right?”
“Some”—the stranger coughed—
“friends of mine were in it, also,” said
he; “and they lost their money.”
“Everybody lost it; the getters-up
bolted with all they had drawn into
their fingers. Have they been took,
do you knowT?”
“All in good time; they have left
their trail. So you have been ill, have
you?”
“111! Just take a sight of me!
There’s an arm for a big man.”
He stretched out his naked arm for
inspection; it appeared as if a touch
would snap it. The stranger laid his
hand upon its fingers, and his other
hand appeared to be stealing furtively
toward his own pocket.
“I should say this looks like starva
tion, Joe.”
“Some’at nigh akin to it.”
A pause of unsuspicion and the
handcuffs were clapped on the aston
ished man. He started up with an
oath.
■'No need to make a noise, Nichous,
said the detective with a careless air.
‘'I have got two men waiting outside.”
“I swear I wasn't in the plate rob
bery.” Dassionatelv uttered the man.
“I knew of it, but I didn’t join ’em,
and I never had the worth of a salt
spoon after it was melted down. And
they call me a coward, and they leave
me here to starve and die! 1 swear
1 wasn’t in it.”
“Well, we’ll talk about the plate
robbery another time,” said the officer,
as he raised his hat; "you have got
thoso bracelets on, my man, for an
other sort of bracelet. A diamond one.
Don’t you remember me?”
The prisoner’s mouth fell.
“I thought that was over and done
with all this time—1 don't know what
you mean,” he added, correcting him
self.
“No,” said the offieer, “it’s just be
ginning. The bracelet is found and
has been traced to you. You were a
clever fellow, and 1 had my doubts of
you at the time; I thought you were
too clever to go on long."
"I should be ashamed to play the
sneak and catch a fellow in this way.
Why couldn’t you come openly in
your proper clothes? not come playing
the spy in the garb of ; friendly civi
lian."
“My men are in their ’proper
clothes,’ ” returned the equable officer,
“and you will have the honor of their
escort presently. I came because they
did not know you, and I did.”
“Three officers to a single man, anil
he a skeleton!” uttered Nicholls, vrith
a vast show of indignation.
“Ay! but you were powerful once
and ferocious, too. The skeleton as
pect is a rerent one."
! “And all for nothing. I don't know
about any bracelets."
"Don't trouble yourself with inven
tions, N’irholls. Your friend is safe in
our bands, and has made a full con
fession.”
"What friend?" asked Nicholls, too
eagerly.
‘The lady you got to dispose of it
for you to the Jew."
Nicholls was startled to incaution.
“She hasn’t split, has she?”
"Every particular she knew or
guessed at. Split to save herself.”
“Then there's no faith in woman.”
"There never was yet,” returned the
officer. “If they are not at the top and
bottom of every mischief, Joe, they are
sure to be in the middle. Is this your
coat?" touching it gingerly.
"She's a disgrace to the female sex,
she is," raved Nicholls, disregarding
the question as to the coat. "But it's a
relief now I’m took, it's a weight off
my mind; I was always expecting of it,
and I shall get food in the Old Bailey
at any rate."
“Ah,” said the officer, "you were in
good service as a respectable servant;
you had better have stuck to your
duties."
"Tho temptation was so great,” ob
served the man, who had evidently
abandoned all idea of denial; and now
that he bad done so, was ready to be
voluble with remembrance and par
ticulars,
"Don't say anything to me,” said
the officer. "It will be used against
you.”
"It came along or my long legs,
cried Nicholla, ignoring the friendly
injunction, and proceeding to enlarge
on the feat he imd performed. “I
have never had a happy hour since; I
was second footman there, and a good
place I had; and I had wished, thou
sands of times, that the bracelet had
been in a sea of molten fire. Our folks
had taken a house in the neighborhood
of Ascot for the race week, and they
had left me at home to take care of
the kitchen maid, and another inferior
or two, taking the rest of the servants
with them. I had to clean the win
ders afore they returned, and I had
drnv it off till the Thursday evening,
and out I got on the balqueny, to be
gin with the back drawing room.”
“What did you say you got out on?”
“The balqueny. The thing with the
green rails around it, what encloses
the windows. While I was leaning
over the rails afore I begun, I heard
somehir.g like click—click agoing on
in the fellow room at the next door,
which was Colonel Hope's. It was
like as if something light was being
laid on the table, and presently I heard
two voices beginning to talk, a lady's
and a gentleman's, and 1 listened—”
“No good ever comes of listening,
Joe!” interrupted the officer.
“I didn't listen for the sake of lis
tening, but it was awful hot, a stand
ing outside there in the sun, and lis
tening was better than working. I
didn’t want to hear neither, for 1 was
thinking of my own concerns, and
what a fool I was to have idled away
my time all day till the sun came on
to the back winders. Bit by bit I
heerd what they were talking about—
that it was jewels they had got there,
and that one was worth 200 guineas.
Thinks I, if that was mine. I'd do no
more work. After awhile I heerd
them go out of the room, and T
thought I’d have a look at the rich
things, and I stepped over slanting
ways on to the little ledge running
along the houses, holding on by our
balqueny, and then I passed my hands
along the wall till I got hold of the
balqueny—but one with ordinary legs
and arms couldn't have done it. You
couldn’t, sir!”
“Perhaps not,” remarked the officer.
“There wasn't fur to fall if I had
fell, only on to the kitchen leads un
der; but I didn’t fall, and I raised
myself on to their balqueny, and look
ed in. My! what a show it was! stun
ning jewels, all laid out there; so
close that if I had put my hand inside
it must have struck all among ’em;
and the fiend prompted me to take
one. I didn't stop to look; I didn’t
stop to think; the one that twinkled
the brightest, and had the most stones
in it was the nearest to me, and I
clutched it and slipped it into my
footman's undress jacket, and stepped
back again.”
“And got safe into your own bal
cony.”
"Yes; hut I didn't clean the winder
that night. I was upset like by w'hat
1 had done, and I think, if I could
have put it back again. I should; but
there was no opportunity. I wrapped
it up in my winder leather, and then
in a sheet of paper, and then 1 put it
up the chimbley in one of the spare
bedrooms. I was up the next morning
afore 5, and I cleaned my winders;
I'd no trouble to awake myself, for I
had never slept. The same day to
wards evening you called sir, and
asked me some questions—whether we
had seen any one on the leads at the
back, and such like. I said, as mas
ter was just come home from Ascot,
would you be pleased to speak to him.”
"Ah.” again remarked the officer!
“you were a clever fellow that day.
But if my suspicions had not been
strongly directed to another quarter,
I might have looked you up more
sharply.”
“I kep’ it by me for a month or two,
and then I gave warning to leave. I
thought I’d have my fling, and I be
came acquainted with her—that lady—
and somehow she wormed out of me
that I had got It, and let her dispose
of It for me, for she said she knew how
to do it without danger."
"What did you get lor it?”
The skeleton shook his head. Thirty
four pound, and I had counted on a
hundred and fifty. She took an oath
she had not helped herself to a six
pence.”
"Oaths are plentiful with the genus,”
remarked the detective,
“She stood to it she hadn’t, and she
stopped and helped me to spend It.
After that was done, she went over
to somebody else who was in luck;
and I have tried to go on, and I can’t;
honestly or dishonestly; it seems all
one; nothing prospers, and I'm naked
and famishing—and 1 wish 1 was dy
ing.’'
"Evil courses never do prosper,
Nicholls,” said the officer, as he call
ed in the policemen, and consigned the
prisoner to their care.
So Gerard was innocent!
"But how was it you skillful detec
tives could not be on this man’s
scent?” asked Colonel Hope of the of
ficer, when he heard the tale.
"Colonel, I was thrown off. Your
positive belief in your nephew's guilt
infected me, and appearances were
very strong against him. Miss Seaton
also helped to throw me off; she said,
if you remember, that she did not
leave the room; but it now appears
she did leave it when your nephew did,
though only for a few momenta. Those
few moments sufficed to do the job.”
“It s strange she could not ten tne
exact truth," growled the colonel.
“She probably thought she was exact
enough since she only remained out
side the door and could answer for it
that no one had entered by it. She
forgot the window. I thought of the
window the instant the loss was mou*
tioned to me, but Miss Seaton’s asser»
tlon that she never had the window out
of her view prevented my dwelling on
it. I did go to the next door, and saw
the very fellow' who committed the
robbery, but his manner was sufficient
ly satisfactory. He talked too freely;
I did not like that; but I found he had
been in the same service 15 months,
and, as I must repeat, I laid the guilt
to another.”
“It is a confoundedly unpleasant af
fair for me,” cried the colonel; “I have
published my nephew’s disgrace and
guilt all over London.”
“It is more unpleasant for him,
colonel,” was the rejoinder of the offi
cer.
"And I have kept him short of
money, and suffered him to be sued
for debt, and I have let him go and
live amongst the runaway scamps over
the water, and not hindered his engag
ing himself as a merchant’s clerk; and,
in short, I have played the very deuce
with him.”
"But reparation is, doubtless, in your
heart and hands, colonel.”
“I don’t know that, sir," testily con
cluded the colonel.
(To be continued.)
Floating Ilutton Factory.
Taking the factory to the raw ma
terial instead of bringing the material
to the factory, is an innovation just
put in operation on the Mississippi
river by a button factory, and it is a
plan that has many practical advan
tages.
This factory is about forty-two feet
long and twelve feet wide, fitted with
all the necessary machinery for the
manufacture of buttons, and provided
with a three-horse-power engine for
its work.
The principal material used by this
factory is mussel shells, which are
found at nearly all points along the
river, and one of the great expenses
in conducting the business heretofore
has been the cost of transporting the
shells. Now the factory has reversed
the operation and will go to the mus
sels.
When a bed of shells is found the
boat will drop its anchor and go to
work. When the bed is exhausted it
will move on to a new location. In
this fashion it will go from state to
state, from Minnesota to Louisiana,
passing along with the seasons, and
always enjoying the most desirable
weather of the Mississippi valley.
Automobile Poachers.
A PariB correspondent tells of some
wholesale poaching of automobilists,
who used their “car” as a trap for
the game and made ofT with enor
mous "bags” of plunder while the
gamekeeper slept. The trick was so
clever that, barring the feelings of
the birds who failed of being “pre
served” for the guns of sporting own
ers, the automobile poachers must be
congratulated on accomplishing their
purpose. They pretended to have
broken down while driving along the
high road, and told the peasants and
the gamekeeper, with many lamenta
tions, they would be forced to remain
all night in the field adjacent. The
gamekeeper, though he says it was
against his will, aided the men in
moving the car to a place of safety
until certain repairs could be effected.
These “repairs” were made in the
dead of night by robbing the pre
serves of nearly every partridge and
quail they contained and making off
with the booty.
NearnoM of Helntlonshlp.
A little miss of five, living in Wash
ington, conspired with her brother, age
four, to save enough pennies to buy
papa and mamma presents. A friend
of the family noticed that mamma’s
present was much finer and more ex
pensive than papa's and was impelled
by curiosity to Inquire why tho bulk
of the savings had been expended for
the mother. The little miss replied:
“Well, you see, papa Is only related
to we children by marriage, while
mamma is our relative by bornation.’'
SOUND RECIPROCITY.
DEFINED BY THE NATIONAL CON
VENTION OF MANUFACTURERS.
Practical Ituslnea* Men Favor Only
Kill'll Tariff Conceinlon. a. Will Not !
Injure Our Domestic Intorest* of Manu
facture*!! Commerce and Agriculture.
9
Tin* National Reciprocity Convention
has come and gone. Called under the
auspices of the National Association of
Manufacturers with the avowed ob
ject of promoting the scheme of trade
agreements embodied in what are
known as the Kasson treaties, and its
management lodged in the hands of
men thoroughly committed to what
Charles Hober Clark so aptly charac
terized as "the policy of industrial as
sassination," the convention prior to
assembling, and up to a certain point
in its proceedings, seemed to stand
aligned for wide open reciprocity, its
permanent chairman, Mr. Theodore C.
Search, executed a neat straddle In his
opening address. He pleaded for a
broader commercial policy, and in sup
port of that plea misquoted the Buffalo
speech of President McKinley. He
completely perverted the tone and
meaning of that famous speech by
carefully suppressing its qualifying
phrases. Chairman Search did not feel
called upon to quote these portions of
the speech of President McKinley:
"By sensible trade arrangements
which will not interrupt our home pro
duction."
"We should take from our customers
such of their products as we can use
without harm to our industries aud
labor.”
‘ We should sell whenever we can,
buy wherever the buying will enlarge
our sales and production, and thereby
make a greater demand for home la
bor.”
This was the McKinley Idea of reci
procity as expressed in the Buffalo
speech. Chairman Search cannot have
overlooked or forgotten these vital por
tions of the speech. Hence the infer
ence that he elected to suppress them
and in so doing was guilty of misquota
tion and perversion. But the omissions
were supplied later in the day in the
very excellent address of Mr. Frank
can Industries if they can tuns obtain
a chance to sell more of their fabrics."
Then came the great speech of the
convention, the turning point of its de
liberations, the event which more than
any other onp thing, and perhaps more
than all other tilings combined, saved
the day for Protection and fair play,
for the kind of reciprocity that builds
up and does not tear down; that cher
ishes and does not assassinate domes
tic industries; the reciprocity of Ulaine,
McKinley, Roosevelt and Dingley; the
reciprocity of the Republican platform
of 1900, which the American people
have indorsed at the polls and which
by that indorsement stands as the un
written law of the land. lty some for
tunate chance—for it is hard to be
lieve that the convention managers re
alized in advance what a mighty
weapon was to be turned against them
—the duty of delivering the second ol
the general papers devolved upon Mr
Charles Hober Clark, a delegate from
the Manufacturers' Club of Philadel
phia. Evidently the level headed Quak
ers knew their man much better than
the eonvention managers knew him
Their selection was a marvelously
good one. Mr. Clark did more than
answer Mr. Farquhar. He annihilated
him. He made that marble hearted
Cobenite look like very much less than
"thirty cents.” He carried the conven
tion by storm with his massing of
farts, statistics and logic, his gift of di
rect statement, his offhand, colloquial
manner of oratory, his touches of
humor and his keen shafts of sarcasm.
Rehearsing tlie tremendous growth of
our foreign trade under the Dingley
law as contrasted with the Wilson
Tariff, Mr. Clark would pause a mo
ment and then ask: “Do yo i see any
thing in this to Justify the hanging of
a hole in the Dingley Tariff?’’ And the
convention would hurst into an uproar
of applause and laughter. Straight to
the mark like a rifle shot went this
statement:
“If you care to engage in reciprocity
experiments along the lines laid down
in the Republican platform of 1900 and
in harmony with the reservation so
carefully insisted upon by President
McKinley at Buffalo, we say go ahead
and see what you can do. But if you
depart from those wise, safe, sensible
lines and undertake to put the knife
into one or more industries for the
A MISCHIEVOUS MAGNET.
Pis
Leake, chairman of the delegation from
the Manufacturers' Club of Philadel
phia, so that tlie convention was not
left in the dark as to the McKinley
idea of reciprocity after all. Mr.
Search made a mild plea that consid
eration be shown to all industries, but
that was all. He was on the top of
the fence whichever way the cat
jumped. To the Protectionist element
in the convention there was an omi
nous significance in the sending to and
the acceptance by the New England
Free-Trade League of an invitation to
send delegates; also in the fact that
the delivery of the first address on the
subject of reciprocity was assigned to
an avowed Free-Trader, Mr. A. B. Far
quhar of York. Pa., a manufac
turer of agricultural implements so
completely guarded by patents and
royalties as to render foreign competi
tion impossible. Being himself in no
need of Protection—or, at any rate,
holding that view, and apparently ob
livious to the fact that upon the gen
eral prosperity produced by Protection
he must depend for by far the larger
portion of sales in the home market—
Mr. Farquhar easily arrives at the con
clusion that no other industry should
have Protection. What he wants to
do is to sell ir.fplements to foreigners,
no matter what becomes of the general
industries of his own country. He is,
in short, a typical reelprocator. Charles
Heber Clark’s definition of reciprocity
fits Farquhar like a glove:
“But of late we have heard a demand
for reciprocity of quite another kind,
and this new' variety of reciprocity, un
sanctioned by any of the great cham
pions of American Industry in the past,
has found advocates in this conven
tion and has even been formulated
in treaties by representatives of the
Government of the United States. It
Is not easy to put into a single phrase
the theory of tills new kind of reciproc
ity; but the purpose of the authors
may be expressed if we shall imagine*
them saying, for example, to France;
“ ‘If you will let us knife some of
your industries we will let you stab
some of ours.’ In short, we find cer
tain American manufacturers who
have grown to greatness under the
Protective system, willing to sanction
partial repudiation of that system so
that they make gains for them
selves in foreign markets. Like the
famous humorist who was willing to
have all his wife’s relatives go to the
war, they will agree to the injury or
the destruction of a few little Ameri
benefit of other industries seeking to
extend their-toreign trade. I say to you
now' we will fight you to the bitter
end.”
Other addresses there were of
marked ability and strength, notably
that of Mr. Leake, whose clear and
calm exposition of the views of the
important body for which he spoke
gained close attention and respect; of
Mr. George J. Seabury, who effectively
urged that an American merchant ma
rine, an Isthmian canal and the lay
ing of Pacific cables to be owned and
operated by Americans should precede
any general scheme of reciprocity; of
Mr. Henry Dailey of New York, who
presented an earnest, scholarly plea
for deliberation, care and wisdom be
fore embarking upon the unchartered
sea of wide open reciprocity; of Mr.
Titus Sheard of Little Falls, N. Y., and
Mr. Owen Osborne of Philadelphia,
who contributed some valuable facts
relative to wages and cost of produc
tion in the knit goods and hosiery In
dustry; of Mr. S. O. Blgney of Attel
boro. Mass., whose statement concern
ing the great jewelry industry of New
England might well make Mr. Farqu
har feel ashamed of his sneering allu
sions to “bogus jewelry.”
In the formation of the committee on
resolutions the outlook for protection
was not at first glance encouraging,
hut the obvious temper of the conven
tion as a whole had its effect upon the
committee's deliberations, with the re
sult of producing a report which stands
for the maintenance of the principle
of proteelion for the home market, and
for only such modifications of the tar
iff as can be made “without injury to
any of our home interests of manufac
turing, commerce or farming.’’, Sound
republican and protection doctrine,
tersely and plainly stated! The reso
lutions also recommend the creation by
Congress of a reciprocity commission
and for the establishment of a depart
ment of commerce. In a body of close
upon 300 delegates these resolutions
were adopted with only three dissent
ing votes. One of these was changed
before the result was announced. Two
remained obdurate. One of these was
Henry W. Lamb, a delegate from the
New England Free Trade League, and
the other declined to disclose his iden
tity.
So ended In all honor and justice and
equity and wisdom and patriotism the
assembly of notables to be hereafter
known In history at the National Reci
procity Convention. In the languages of
the devout Mr. Seabury we say: Amen!
SHOI LDNOT COME I!l
FIGURES FROM BOARD OF IMMIGRA
TION COMMISSIONERS.
of Immigrant! Who Ar* Cn
<le*lrali!e from American Standpoints
of ('Itlzanahlp—I'nnper K.lenient from
Southern Italy Left In Seaboard Cities.
The report of the board of immigra
tion commissioners at New York con
tains figures and statistics that furnish
food for serious reflection on the much
vexed problem of restricting the flow
of certain classes of foreigners to this
country. The total immigration for
the fiscal year 1900-1901 was 383,931,
as against 341,712 for the year previous,
an increase of 47,219. The total num
ber of immigrants from southern Italy
for 1900-1901 was 111,298, as against
83,329 for the preceding fiscal year.
From northern Italy there were 20,360
immigrants this year as against 16,690
last year, an increase of 3,670. The
commissioners’ report will show that
the southern Italians brought with
them this year $964,979, a per capita
rate of only $8.67, while the northern
Italians brought $478,969, a per capita
rate of $23.62, standing well up among
the highest class of immigrants. As to
the Influx from other countries the fig
ures are also interesting. The second
highest on the list to the Italians are
the Hebrews, who numbered 43,237, a
decrease of 1,283 from the preceding
year. They were also short of funds,
having Drought $360,940, a per capita
rate of $8.68, which is 9 cents less than
that, of the southern Italians and the
lowest on the entire list. Polish im
migrants numbered 37,636, an increase
of 801. They brought $373,659, or $9.93
per capita. The Lithuanians were
8,192 in number and had a per capita
rate of $8.66, the Portuguese were 3,393
strong, with a $9.61 rate, and the Ru
thenlans 5,032, with a $9.64 rate to their
credit. The per capita rate of all oth
ers was above $10. The German immi
gration amounted to 29,660, an increase
at 6,298. Their per capita rate was
$31.14, .the third highest on the list,
the first being held by the French, at
a $39.57 rate, with a small Immigra
tion of 3,771, while the English, Scotch
and Welsh at $32.64 were third highest,
with a total Immigration of 6,433 per
sons. Ireland sent over this year 19,
953 immigrants, which was 5,247 less
than landed during 1899-1900. They
Drought $340,822, or $17.10 per capita
rate. The Scandinavians increased
1,334 over last year, their total being
24,161, with a per capita ratio of 116.15.
The Slovaks numbered 26,931, an In
crease of 1,539. They had a $12.31 rate.
The Magyars were 12,344, with 991 In
crease and a $10.96 rate. The Croa
tian and Dalmatian races were repre
sented by 12,348 immigrants, with
$15.54 as a per capita; the Dutch and
Flemish had 3,065, with a high ratio
af $26.30, while the Spanish, with 513,
an increase of 204, had a still higher
oer capita of $30.23. The Armenians,
Syrians and Bohemians furnished 11,
721, the Finnish 8,359, the Greeks 6,661
and all other nationalities 1,627. Their
per capita rates ranged from $15 to $22.
As already stated, the increase in im
migration for the fiscal year 1900-1901
was 47,219, and of this number 28,969,
or 61 per cent, were natives of south
Italy. One of the railroad officials of
the immigration bureau, in New York,
commenting on this feature, said: “The
southern Italians, who so largely
swelled the tide of immigration this
vear constitute an undesirable class for
naturalization and citizenship. Past
experience bears out this statement,
and, as evidence of the fact that there
« no racial prejudice in the assertion, it
is only necessary to ask the opinion of
a north Italian on the pauper element
of southern Italy. Many of them have
told me how utterly worthless these
persons are at home, and statistics
show how- useless they are from a pro
gressive standpoint in this country.
They represent the lazy #nd Indolent
outcasts of southern Europe, are abso
lutely thriftless and will work only
when dire necessity compels it. They
bring Just enough money with them to
this country to comply with the immi
gration laws, and, as they cannot af
ford to buy railroad or steamboat
tickets to'sections of the country where
there is a demand for their labor, they
linger in the large cities of the East
until their meager fund is exhausted,
and then, for the most part, become
burdens on the municipalities in which
they are stranded. This, of course,
will apply to some classes of other na
tionalities, and it seems that the time
has arrived for more stringent immi
gration laws, restricting the wholesale
influx of objectionable classes of for
eigners to this country.”—New York
Sun.
Charity's Choice.
“Mummy,’ said a small girl—“mum
my, dear, I do wish I might give some
money for poor children's dinners."
‘So you may, darling." “But, mum
my. I haven’t any money.’’ “Well,
darling, if you like to go without
sugar I will give you the money in
stead, and then you will have some.”
The small child considered solemnly
for a moment and then said: "Must it
oe sugar, mummy?” “Why, no, darling,
I don’t much mind. What would you
like to do without?” “How would
soap do, mummy, then?” exclaimed
the small maiden in triumph.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Choliy-"I think I may change my
mind.” Miss Marbleheart (earnest
ly)—“I would if I were you.”—Judge.
Bowing to circumstances is apt to
be forced politeness.
Many a man’s head is full of empti
ness.
